#sheriff galpin

[prefer-to-be-vilified]

Wednesday: *is being arrested*

Enid: Wow. God forbid women do anything these days.

Sheriff Galpin: Kid your friend-

Wednesday: She’s my girlfriend you intolerant shit.

Thing: H-O-M-O-P-H-O-B-E

Sheriff Galpin: I’m not- whatever, your girlfriend just landed four grown men in the hospital.

Enid: And… She looked good doing it.

Wednesday: They deserved it. One of them told me to smile.

Enid: You tell him baby.

Sheriff Galpin: You know what? I can’t with… whatever this is. She’s free to go and officially your problem.

Enid: Yay!

Wednesday: *pausing mid-escape and casually handing the sheriff broken handcuffs* Miserable-night Sheriff.

Sheriff Galpin: *whispering* I hate you.

Wednesday: *also whispering* I’m glad.

Enid: Hurry up babycakes, I need my cuddle buddy.

Wednesday: *smirking* Coming Amore.

[tabrisofmars]

Wednesday squints her eyes: Why must everything burn my retina?

Enid, giggling: You agreed to let me decorate my side for Xmas.

Yoko: Pupper, I think you overdid it again this year.

Enid: I'm not even done yet! Here let me plug in the lights.

Yoko hands a spare pair of sunglasses to Wednesday

Wednesday:

Yoko: Just trust me for once, Stabitha

Wednesday sneers but puts on the shades

Enid's side of the room bursts into light

Wednesday: It is like the Sun personally punches me in the face

Yoko: Yeah I feel like I'm about to catch fire and curse God

Two miles away Sheriff Galpin spits out his coffee

Galpin on the radio: I need backup. I think Nevermore is on fire.

[horror-lady00]

Wednesday: I'm tired of this interrogation. I wish to leave.

Sheriff Galpin: Well, sorry, princess, but it's not kind of conversation you can just walk out of.

Wednesday: Then you leave me no choice. *Opens her mouth in silent scream*

Sheriff Galpin: What- What was that? What did you do?

Wednesday: A call for assistance.

*Several minutes later a large blonde wolf with pink tints breaks through the wall, stunning everyone around. Wednesday casually stands up and climbes on it*

Wednesday: Away, my loyal Lupus.

*Both walk out of police station*

[in3jj]

Sheriff Galpin: You tried to torture my son.

Wednesday: Well, he’s a pyschotic monster who’s killed multiple innocent people. So I think it’s justified.

Sheriff Galpin: I literally walked in on you two making out yesterday.

[wednesdayorwhatever]

Wednesday as Reductress Headlines (part 2):

part 1 part 3

[vaniloqu3nce]

[lorelaiblair]

My thoughts as I rewatch Wednesday Part 1

-enid’s hands at her sides as she runs over to meet wednesday for the first time is the silliest and cutest thing ever

-donavan let’s the first crime scene be contaminated by the rain, he’s not even trying to preserve evidence

-enid’s a little psycho, it’s perfect

-thornhills fashion sense is horrible

-why is xavier just hovering over her when she wakes up after the gargoyle attack??? how long has he been just standing over her???

-for everything that she is, that she pretends to be, seeing death really shakes her. seeing that vision of the delivery man dying really bothered her

-“boo” wednesday says and the borneo pilgrims attack her, babes, she’s 5 foot tall, that really scared you so badly you had to attack her?? she handed you your ass. deserved.

-she plays with the necklace morticia gave her when she sees the dead delivery man, proving my earlier point

-is that beer in his desk drawer? donavan a drunk??? can’t say i’m surprised

-weems really cares about wednesday, in a complicated and messy way, but she does care

-enid is everything

-her outfits are so cute

-enid being the first person she’s actually venerable around, telling her about her emotions and her past

-“are you sure that you can trust that normie?” she cares. she cares. she loves so much. they barely know each other and enid cares so much.

-what was with the birds in her vision of rowan? are they about her being a raven or is it something else?

part 2 / part 3

[weyler]

the characters from the wednesday series as random memes saved on my phone:

wednesday:

enid:

tyler:

xavier:

bianca:

eugene:

ajax:

principal weems:

marilyn thornhill:

sheriff galpin:

[itshype]

I know all the fics are all about Evil/Mean Sherriff Galpin but there was nothing funnier than when he interrupted their weird date in the crypt and just went "yeah, okay, I can't stop this can I?"

More tired dad Sherriff!

[a-humble-bagel]

i could be wrong, but i’m pretty sure that “Wednesday” is the first form of The Addams Family that isn’t satire (I haven’t seen the 2019 and 2021 movies and idk if I ever will).

This just leads to some interesting new perspectives because now a lot of people are trying to rationalize/moralize some of Wednesday’s actions which is interesting because no one’s ever had to do that before. 

I think the lack of satire also makes some of the Addams’ actions in the show a little confusing, like how they seem to love all things dark and murderous but then when Gomez gets accused of murder they act as though it’s a terrible thing (I know this can be rationalized by saying that they were scared of the consequences he’d face, but honestly it would’ve been nice if it didn’t have to be rationalized in the first place). 

The thing with satire is that their actions never had to be rationalized because it was funny. Sure, it was dark humour, but you could tell that it was a joke. It was obvious that the point of those dark jokes was to entertain, and those weren’t the morals the story was preaching. Take this scene in “The Addams Family Values” for example where Wednesday sets Amanda on fire: 

It’s obvious that the movie isn’t telling you “set the people who bully you on fire”, because it’s obviously satire. To find the actual message, you have to look deeper into the dark campiness to find the heart of what the story is about. Satires are exaggerations of real life problems, and The Addams Family looks at the flaws within the “ideal American family”. This scene is telling the audience to stand up to bullies, that adults can be blind and part of the problem, not to bully outcasts/people who seem weird, that history is often sanitized, and that colonialism is bad. It’s also a badass moment that feels great because Wednesday and the other “weird” kids are finally getting revenge on a bunch of rude and horrible people.

Now compare that to the scene in “Wednesday” where Wednesday tortures Tyler. True, the scenes take place in very different contexts. Tyler is someone who has physically hurt people, including Wednesday’s friend, so it’s more personal. In this scene, it isn’t just justice she’s after, it’s cold-hearted vengeance (that may be mixed with some feelings of being hurt).. With Amanda, it’s more lighthearted as Amanda never killed anyone. Nevertheless, in both scenes, Wednesday gets violent revenge on someone who’s wronged her, but the message in the TV show is that torture is bad. The Nightshades turn their backs on Wednesday, and she faces consequences for her actions. And that brings me to my next point: consequences.

In “Wednesday”, The Addams family has to face actual legal consequences. In the 90s movies, they only had to face social consequences. Even though they did all those horrifying terrible things, the only repercussions they got were disdain and annoyance from the other characters, which isn’t much of a repercussion. Even in “The Addams Family” when Tully throws them out of their house, the police are never involved, and the thought of the Addams’ going to jail doesn’t even cross the audience’s mind. This is partly what allows them to wholeheartedly engage in macabre and murderous things: the narrative doesn’t punish them for it, and they never face serious consequences. 

After all, if the Addams’ in the 90s movies faced serious consequences, the narrative wouldn’t go anywhere. If the storyline allowed the Addams’ to be arrested, then the judge at the start likely would’ve called the police when Gomez kept hitting golf balls through his window. Gomez would’ve been arrested, and the story couldn’t progress. As a satire, the 90s movies require there to be a lack of police in order to convey the messages of the films. That way, the Addams’ can do all of their usual spooky and dangerous things, which convey the deeper lessons of the story. However, “Wednesday” took away the satire and added in the police.

From the start, the Addams’ are treated as not “ordinary” people, but they no longer exist outside of the law. This is shown in the very first episode, when Wednesday puts the piranhas in the pool. Morticia later mentions that “the boy’s father wanted to press attempted murder charges”. That is a huge difference from the 90s movies. If this was a scene in one of the 90s movies, Wednesday likely would’ve still been expelled, but it would’ve been something she was smugly satisfied about, and there would be no the threat of legal actions. 

In other words, the previous versions of The Addams Family were all treated as satire characters, which allowed them to get away with things that they wouldn’t be able to do in the real world (playing with death/dangerous activities/torture) without the narrative punishing them for it, and without them facing real consequences. Satires require exaggeration, so extremes had to be allowed. However, “Wednesday” treated The Addams’ as regular characters, and had them face consequences like being arrested and jail. This makes it feel like they’re all bark and no bite: it seems like they talk about death and violence but deep down, they abhor it.

This is what made Gomez’s arrest seem somewhat contradictory. The Addams talk so much about how they love death, so why did Wednesday and Morticia have to go to such lengths to prove that he didn’t kill anyone? And Wednesday’s comment at the end of the episode about how she knows Gomez couldn’t really kill anyone just reinforces the idea that the Addams’ are all bark and no bite.

 Besides, whether or not the Addams’ themselves actually disapproved of Gomez murdering someone, the narrative disapproved of it. The story punishes Gomez for potentially being a murderer, just like it punishes Wednesday for torturing Tyler. Since the Addams’ aren’t satire characters in this interpretation, it can’t allow them to go to the same extremes as satire characters, it has to punish them, otherwise it would convey the message “torture and murder are good”.

This isn’t a criticization of how the show interpreted the Addams’, it’s just a neat thing I started thinking about and then decided to write out. 

tldr: The Addams’ aren’t satire in “Wednesday”, so while they still have the same values/talk the same way as their 90s movie counterparts, the narrative has to have them face serious consequences so it doesn’t convey the wrong message.

[hislittleraincloud]

Wednesday Series 1 🫴🏽🕸️🖤🐦‍⬛💕💖🔥✨

[sapphire600]

Okay, hear me out y’all

How about instead of simply capturing Tyler and sending him away? He has an On the Run arc for season two. With this, I think it can show more of Tyler’s character. To show the real Tyler is without a master for him to obey, to get a better understanding of his character. (And to show the psychology of Hydes, getting more depth in their history and even coming across some Hydes.)

Tyler has always struck me as a person who wants absolute freedom, he longs for an escape. One of his famous lines is “Because I wish I was going with you. At least one of us will get out of this hellhole town.” So him getting an On the Run arc will make sense.

Him getting into hijinks would be great and we can even have one-off characters who serve as guidance to Tyler while trying to help him by asking questions such as “What are you looking for?” Or “Where are you going?” Questions that the audience and Tyler are wondering ourselves.

A On the Run arc could be literal and figuratively. Him running away from everything that happened, not wanting to face the legal consequences in Jerchio, and figuratively running away from his feelings, not ready to face them or scared to face them.

If someone asks about his complicated relationship with his father and Tyler admitting that he kinda misses him.

Then about Wednesday, who he knows he hurt very badly and thinks she is better off not seeing him again. Not wanting to hurt her again.

And coming to terms with that Marilyn Thornhill | Laurel Gates never cared for him and was only using him.

Basically, Tyler realizing that he needs help and wants people to help him.

[needanevenbettername]

Sheriff Galpin: *Complaining about something to do with Tyler.*

Tyler's thoughts: And Dad is still talking, still talking, still talking. It's cool that my brain has an echo, though.

Tyler's thoughts with an echo: Hello! Anybody in here?

The Hyde: Hello Tyler.

Tyler's Thoughts: AH, SHIT! WHAT THE FUCK?

[wednesdayorwhatever]

Weems, to Sheriff Galpin: My students are always on their best behavior. We frown on cursing at Nevermore.

Wednesday, in the distance: FUCK!

[alphawhitefox]

Sheriff Galpin: What is going on here?

Enid: Well, no offense but...

Wednesday: Full offense, fuck you!

[burtonbabygirlguster]

people be like “omg why can’t Enid and Wednesday just be friends 🙄” well why can’t Wednesday and the boy who was [manipulating her the entire time about a series of murders and attempted to kill her friend and told his partner/master information that almost led to another friends death and was also being told to do things, and did them, for the outcome of all Outcasts to die] just be friends. hm. suspicious.